Emblemata selectiora : typis elegantissimis expressa, nec non sententiis, carminibus, historiis ac proverbiis, ex scriptoribus cum sacris tum profanis, antiquis & recentioribus, illustrata

by: Plaats, François van der, printer; Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637, ill

Publication date: 1704

Topics: Emblems, Emblem books, Latin

Publisher: Sumptibus authoris & veneunt Amstelaedami : Apud Franciscum vander Plaats

Collection: emblem; americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: Latin

Title vignette, engraved (publisher's device)

Each plate followed by descriptive text

Plates, with mottoes in Latin and Dutch, appeared previously in F. Egger's Elegantissimorum emblematum corpusculum, 1696, and, later, in Acht en dertig zinnebeelden, 1737

Thirty-eight circular copperplate engravings attributed by Landwehr to Crispyn de Passe the Elder

First 38 plates from Elegantissimorum emblematum corpusculum. Cf. Praz

Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the Low Countries

Landwehr, J. Emblem and fable books (3rd ed.)

Praz